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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-07-22 22:52:37 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-07-22 22:56:41 +0200
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doc: Mention zeroed mtimes in the binary tarball.
Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/21111>. Reported by Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>. * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Add paragraph about "implausibly old time stamps" warning from tar.
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@@ -308,6 +308,12 @@ This creates @file{/gnu/store} (@pxref{The Store}) and @file{/var/guix}.
The latter contains a ready-to-use profile for @code{root} (see next
step.)
+Some versions of GNU@tie{}tar raise a warning about ``implausibly old
+time stamps''. This is because all the files in the archive have their
+modification time set to zero (which means January 1st, 1970.) This is
+done on purpose to make sure the archive content is independent of its
+creation time, thus making it reproducible.
+
Do @emph{not} unpack the tarball on a working Guix system since that
would overwrite its own essential files.